Category: Announcements

wiiw is hiring

Currently, the institute is looking for candidates for the following three positions: An economist interested in regional and spatial analysis – download job advertisement in pdf format An economist specialised in the Western Balkans, macroeconomics and/or monetary policy and finance – download job advertisement in pdf format A part-time project manager – download job advertisement […]

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OeNB’s Klaus Liebscher Economic Research Scholarship

The Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) has replaced the economic research awards previously conferred by its Economic Analysis and Research Department with the newly established “Klaus Liebscher Economic Research Scholarship.” This Scholarship gives outstanding researchers the opportunity to contribute to the broad range of research activities at the OeNB’s Economic Analysis and Research Department by providing consultancy […]

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GDN #K4SD CfP

The Global Development Network (GDN), the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), the German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval) and the United Nations University-Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), and the Bonn Alliance for Sustainability Research/Innovation Campus Bonn are jointly organizing GDN’s 2019 Global Development Conference in Bonn on the general […]

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Western Balkans Labor Market Trends 2019

Labor market performance in the Western Balkans continued to improve, albeit at a slower pace than the previous year and despite stronger economic growth in the region. According to the ‘Western Balkans Labor Market Trends 2019‘ report, recently launched by the World Bank and the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw), about 68,000 new […]

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Public Sector Economics 2019 Conference

The Institute of Public Finance (IPF) and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) are organizing the conference Public Sector Economics 2019 – Wealth and property taxation: where do we stand? on 24 October 2019 in Zagreb, Croatia. The goal of the conference is to provide a state-of-the-art assessment of the profession’s thinking on the potentials and limitations […]

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Infrastructure Investment in the Western Balkans: A First Analysis

wiiw has recently published a joint publication with the European Investment Bank. The study provides a first analysis of the recent development in infrastructure investment in the Western Balkans. It identifies infrastructure gaps as well as key infrastructure initiatives in the region, outlines the political dimension and provides the respective detailed infrastructure investment data as […]

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Western Balkans Labour Market Trends 2018

Country flyers for the Western Balkans based on the recent Western Balkan Labor Market Trends 2018 report are now online. The flyers present a short description of recent trends and feature key labor market indicators based on the harmonized data prepared in the context of the SEE Jobs Gateway. The data can be obtained online […]

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IJF Public Sector Economics 2018 Call for Papers

The Institute of Public Finance (IJF) and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) are organising a research and policy conference on Public Sector Economics 2018 – Fiscal Openness: Transparency, Participation and Accountability in Fiscal Policies (October 26, 2018; Zagreb, Croatia). The abstract submission deadline is May 15, 2018 to PSE2018@ijf.hr For more information please follow the […]

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